(Part 4) Top products from r/Dallas

You can definitely do your wedding for < $20-30K, but you will need to be flexible about what you must have. I'd suggest checking out /r/weddingplanning. I really liked Bridal Bargains by Denise Fields - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1889392294/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Some random ideas...

• Your dress - buy used (http://www.preownedweddingdresses.com/) has great options. Or buy a sample from a salon. I got my utterly gorgeous dress for 60% off by buying a sample I found online from a salon out in California.
  
  
• Save hundreds on your cake by having a small cutting cake for you two (or a big-looking cake that's mostly fake tiers with real cake tier on top for cutting). Buy a grocery store sheet cake to feed guests.
  
  
• Flowers - Consider doing silk flower arrangements yourself that you can create ahead of time or using dried flowers. If you must have real flowers, then when you talk to your florist, give her colors you want instead of specific flowers. For example, if you wanted white and bright yellow, hydrangea + yellow billy balls / mum centerpieces is going to be much less $$ than hydrangea + tulips + freesia + roses. Don't do high arrangements - they cost more. If you must have flowers at your ceremony, make sure you can reuse them at your reception. You can also consider doing your own flowers. I'm doing my own bouquets. They're so ridiculously easy. PM me if you want more info on that.
  
  
• Use theknot.com and weddingwire.com to thoroughly research vendors. That's how I found our photographer - $2500 for her + second shooter unlimited hours day of wedding and we get a thumb drive with all our images on it so we can print out own. She's less expensive because she's younger and building her portfolio. But her photos are gorgeous. All my friends' photographers were at least $5k.
  
  PM me if you want more ideas; I'm getting married in the spring, so I'm all over the wedding shit right now.
  
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My uncle and grandpa have both since passed away and they we the only family members there that day so any additional accounts of this picture are lost. Grandpa was a manager of some sort at the Kodak plant where the Zapruder film was taken, but he obviously wasn’t in that day and isn’t mentioned in any of the history though a lot of his workers and coworkers were directly involved and named.

I have a book about the Zapruder film free to a good home. It’s written by his granddaughter and is a great close up account of the film and family. Interesting read on an important Dallas artifact. I want someone to enjoy it rather than have it sit on a shelf and age.

Update: book is spoken for, hope y’all enjoy

It's a bit old now and really academic but "Dallas: The Making of a Modern City" by Patricia Hill is interesting. But I like real history that doesn't whitewash or sugarcoat it. From an Amazon description:

>From the ruthless deals of the Ewing clan on TV's "Dallas" to the impeccable customer service of Neiman-Marcus, doing business has long been the hallmark of Dallas. Beginning in the 1920s and 1930s, Dallas business leaders amassed unprecedented political power and civic influence, which remained largely unchallenged until the 1970s.

>In this innovative history, Patricia Evridge Hill explores the building of Dallas in the years before business interests rose to such prominence (1880 to 1940) and discovers that many groups contributed to the development of the modern city. In particular, she looks at the activities of organized labor, women's groups, racial minorities, Populist and socialist radicals, and progressive reformers—all of whom competed and compromised with local business leaders in the decades before the Great Depression.

>This research challenges the popular view that business interests have always run Dallas and offers a historically accurate picture of the city's development. The legacy of pluralism that Hill uncovers shows that Dallas can accommodate dissent and conflict as it moves toward a more inclusive public life. Dallas will be fascinating and important reading for all Texans, as well as for all students of urban development.

Another book is White Metropolis by Michael Phillips, who is a local historian and community college professor (I believe). From the description:

>From the nineteenth century until today, the power brokers of Dallas have always portrayed their city as a progressive, pro-business, racially harmonious community that has avoided the racial, ethnic, and class strife that roiled other Southern cities. But does this image of Dallas match the historical reality? In this book, Michael Phillips delves deeply into Dallas's racial and religious past and uncovers a complicated history of resistance, collaboration, and assimilation between the city's African American, Mexican American, and Jewish communities and its white power elite.

>Exploring more than 150 years of Dallas history, Phillips reveals how white business leaders created both a white racial identity and a Southwestern regional identity that excluded African Americans from power and required Mexican Americans and Jews to adopt Anglo-Saxon norms to achieve what limited positions of power they held. He also demonstrates how the concept of whiteness kept these groups from allying with each other, and with working- and middle-class whites, to build a greater power base and end elite control of the city. Comparing the Dallas racial experience with that of Houston and Atlanta, Phillips identifies how Dallas fits into regional patterns of race relations and illuminates the unique forces that have kept its racial history hidden until the publication of this book.

One of the reviews:

>This compelling book goes a long way toward explaining Dallas's dysfunctional political machine by exposing the history and nature of its engine. According to Phillips, political power in Dallas has always been partitioned on a sliding scale of "whiteness", with WASPs at the top, African Americans at the bottom, and everyone else (notably Jews and Hispanics) jockeying for position in between-- a practice that is still in effect today. The evidence for Phillips' argument is overwhelming and it will be interesting to see the reaction to this book (if any) by Dallas's power structure and its critics. Phillips spares no one, including Dallas's current civil rights activists, whom he accuses of taking only a superficial stab at real change and minority empowerment.

Ofcourse you could make it yourself, depending on how aged you want it it can be ready from anywhere between 1 month to a few years. Here is a good link: http://www.bardicbrews.net/. Also wholefood and Central Market have a few varieties. BTW meads are excellent, a superb book on the origines of mead and other indigenous fermentations: Sacred and Herbal Healing Beers

I would imagine Amazon could get it to you more quickly than you will find it here. I took the liberty of looking it up for you and you could have it by tomorrow if you order it soon and pay the extra shipping.

Also, you're a student, which means you should qualify for Amazon Prime for half price, which would give you free two-day shipping and cheap one-day shipping. It's pretty nice.

The word 'community' is why. In your small town there are real connections between people. In large metro areas most everyone is in their bubble caring about themselves. I recommend grabbing a copy of Tribe by Sebastian Junger. It's a great look in to the history of our society, why our society seems more fragmented than ever, why vets returning home can have a hard time re-assimilating, why these acts keep happening, etc.



https://www.amazon.com/Tribe-Homecoming-Belonging-Sebastian-Junger/dp/1455566381

hey Tilly.

here's my recommendation, unless you've suffered serious trama, most spine and neck injuries are muscle related. (including whiplash) and your best treatment is physical therapy. (having seen it in action, and made a video for a doctor at a conference of doctors...)

There's two great (small) books on the subject Treat your own Neck and Treat your own back they both have treatments for both injuries, and prevention.

here's another testimonial, (one of the comments in there is by a friend that I gave copies to)

I actually got this book, Ghosts of North Texas not too long ago, I recommend checking it out! He has stories from all over the metroplex, and goes further than just repeating the legend--he tries to find historical backup as well (and often there is none, haha). It's a cool read though, and fun to check out the places that are nearby!

I think you'd enjoy the book Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat. It's written by an anthrozooligist who delves honestly into the very contradictory relationship we have with animals. He doesn't provide answers, so much as an in depth study into the place and role animals have in our lives and many preconceptions we simply take for granted.

Honestly, apply for everything. Shoot for those two and help desk. You can sort of get in the door with call center work, but let's call that a last ditch effort.


For learning about the field, Network Warrior is pretty much the bible of generalized network "stuff". It's fairly vendor independent and covers a lot of things that are off the beaten path (load balancers and such).

Cisco's CCENT book and the above one will supplement each other well.

I can't really speak to the server side these days. I've been over in Networking for a while...

The New Jim Crow Highly recommend you read this book.

http://dumpsterdiving.meetup.com/members/us/tx/dallas/

There is also this book, which is a bit dated.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Art-Science-Dumpster-Diving/dp/1581605501
and this newer
http://www.amazon.com/Dumpster-Diving-Advanced-Peoples-Publicity/dp/158160369X/ref=pd_bxgy_b_text_y
I would look for dumpster diving boards. They usually have a lot of good info on the policies for many national chains. I have heard that Pier One throws away a lot of good stuff, but that was years ago.

Kind of like how most people technically commit ~3 Felonies a Day just going about their daily life.

Available maps? How about a book full of 'em:
http://www.amazon.com/Roads-Texas-M-University/dp/156966305X

This has pretty much every public road in Texas on it (and some private roads as well), from Interstate to rural one-lane dirt roads.

If you don’t mind cooking, this is a neat one to try:

https://www.amazon.com/Homesick-Texan-Cookbook-Lisa-Fain/dp/1401324266

I am guessing this is the one you were looking at: https://www.amazon.com/Downtown-Dallas-Romantic-Modern-Renaissance/dp/1933285737

I am not certain this is what you are looking for but there are some historic pictorial books that do have downtown buildings:

https://www.amazon.com/Dallas-Then-Now%C2%AE-Ken-Fitzgerald/dp/1909108405

https://www.amazon.com/Lost-Dallas-Mark-Doty/dp/1531656803

https://www.amazon.com/Historic-Photos-Dallas-Michael-Hazel/dp/168336919X/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

And one more but it is more expensive than the one you already found:

https://www.amazon.com/Historic-Photos-Dallas-50s-60s/dp/1596527420

All of these are available from the Dallas Public Library so you check them out before you purchase one.